Insi-De The Wise Up Issue: A little good advice goes a very long way.
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With 2012 drawing to a close and 2013 just beginning, it’s time to reflect on where you’ve come from, what you’ve achieved and most importantly where you’re going. Who better to inspire you for the year ahead than the one and only Grace Coddington, the first of our eight cover stars. American Vogue’s legendary Creative Director knows that you have to walk apart from the crowd to really make your mark, and if there’s anyone to inspire tomorrow’s future fashion stylists, editors and entrepreneurs, it’s her. We celebrate the launch of Grace’s Memoirs with a stunning cover photographed by Arthur Elgort and an interview with i-D’s Founder and Editor-in-Chief Terry Jones. Stay tuned to i-Donline.com for more from Grace, including the chance to win a Grace Coddington T-shirt, designed by Vanity Fair’s Style Director Michael Roberts.

i-D’s Wise Up issue hits shelves November 22nd. Order your copy online now! We’ll be releasing seven more covers over the coming days so be sure to fix your eyes on i-Donline.com and on Models.com from Monday for a glimpse of two more stunning covers. In this issue there’s a pearl of wisdom for everyone. Follow them wisely and the New Year’s guaranteed to be a good one.

__________________we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. wandering by lone sea breakers and sitting by desolate streams. world losers and world forsakers, on whom the pale moon gleams. yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever it seems

It's great and so fresh to see an older model on the cover of any high fashion magazine. But the portrait itself is bland, bland, bland. I'd much prefer a closely cropped image of just her radiant face framed by her trademark hair. The inclusion of that jacket looks like some vintage Claude Montana piece which in turn, gives the portrait a generic late-80s vibe-- instead of a modern vibe.